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Stress Test May 14th

May 9, 2012 - 10:25pm -- Haelyn

From the GW2 Facebook Page:

We’ll be conducting a stress test on Monday May 14 from 11 AM to 6:00 PM PDT (-7 GMT).

This special test event is open only to Pre-Purchase customers who have registered their accounts. With your help, we can conduct important tests and address some of the issues we identified during our first Beta Weekend Event. During this event, all you need to do is play normally with a new or existing character on your Beta account using the same game client. Please note that since this is a stress test of our servers, you may experience some in-game performance issues. If you’ve pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 and wish to participate in the stress test, we recommend that you register the account and download the game client.

Pre-Purchase customers, log in to the Beta Forums for more information and/or to download the Beta client if needed.

https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/stress/news/Getting-Started/169235

Having issues logging in? Contact Support: https://support.guildwars2.com/

~RB2

And here is a link:  http://www.facebook.com/GuildWars2/posts/10150848164094209

 

 

 

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For those on the East coast,

For those on the East coast, it will be up and running from 1pm until 9pm.

Hopefully this stress test is a sign that a BWE is still on the cards for the month of May.

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Funny how that works, now I'm

Funny how that works, now I'm actually looking forward to weekend ending cheeky

Are you a guardian? Let me introduce you to my Flesh Golem, he's getting a bit hungry.

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Wow, I may be able to get a

Wow, I may be able to get a couple hours in  yes

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The wife is pleased because

The wife is pleased because she took Monday off to do some stuff, so the stress test is an added bonus.

I may have to get up a bit earlier than usual to try an squeeze in a couple of hours before work.

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Uhh.. It's from 9.00 pm to 4.

Uhh.. It's from 9.00 pm to 4. 00 am for me and I have to go to school at 8.00 am indecision

Seems like I won't be playing much this time..

Are you a guardian? Let me introduce you to my Flesh Golem, he's getting a bit hungry.

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School is for chumps.

School is for chumps.

GW2 will teach you everything you need to know and provide you with valuable skills that you can take into the workplace.

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True that, now hand me the

True that, now hand me the torc h already

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Yeah, I won't get more than

Yeah, I won't get more than an hour or so myself.  I plan on spending that time looking at traits and trying builds etc. in structured pvp.  Probably the best thing to do in such a short amount of time.

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From the blog:

From the blog:

I think it’s safe to say that the response was overwhelming in more ways than one. Firstly, the number of people who pre-purchased the game far exceeded our expectations, and we had to temporarily disable pre-purchases. In the end that wasn’t enough, and even with 48 worlds we didn’t have enough server capacity to meet the huge demand.

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Client Update

Don't forget to launch your client during this weekend.  I just launched mine and it had a10 to 20 min update.

Since I start work at 3pm est, I'll probably only get about an hour to play, but I'm gonna do my best for an hour to play.  Hopefully I won't have to wait for another update when i get up to play at 1.

 

Galen

Galen

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An update from the GW2

An update from the GW2 Facebook page:

Monday's stress test draws ever nearer. We want to thank you in advance for helping us test Guild Wars 2. How can you best help with the test? Well, our first Beta Weekend Event gave us a mountain of great feedback about gameplay, and our developers are hard at work on that aspect.

Rather than game play feedback, the goal for the stress test is to gather technical feedback. We want you to rush the servers and crowd into Tyria, and you’ll probably come across connectivity and performance problems. Be patient as you help our team find those bugs. Again, thanks in advance for helping us chase those out and crush them for good!

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Seems odd that they would try

Seems odd that they would try to do a stress test during US workday hours. The servers seemed to hold up pretty well during the beta weekend; surely there will be fewer players attending monday?

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Europe time

It's a perfect time to play for us in Europe (7pm onwards UK time). Maybe they're concentrating on stressing the European servers? 

Needless to say, I'll be playing for as long as possible on Monday! 

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I'm thinking Wedge7 may have

I'm thinking Wedge7 may have hit on it.

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